Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu is an Indian politician who served as the 13th vice president of India from 2017 to 2022. He is the first Indian vice president born in independent India. He has also served as the minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Urban Development and Information and Broadcasting in the Modi Cabinet.
V Rama Rao served as Governor of Sikkim from 2002–2007. He started his political career in 1956 when he joined Jana Sangh and went on to become a National Leader of Bharatiya Janata Party and was elected to Andhra Pradesh State Legislative Council from Hyderabad Graduates' Constituency for four consecutive terms in 1966, 1972, 1978 and 1984. He served as a Party Floor Leader in council during his last term.
Bandaru Dattatreya is an Indian politician serving as the current governor of the State of Haryana since 2021. He was also the 20th governor of Himachal Pradesh and was the member of Lok Sabha for Secunderabad from 2014 to 2019. He belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Keshari Nath Tripathi was an Indian politician, who served as Governor of West Bengal from July 2014 to July 2019 and also as Governor of Bihar, Meghalaya, and Mizoram at various times. He was a member of Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the Speaker of Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly three times, and the president of Bharatiya Janata Party, Uttar Pradesh.
Jagdambika Pal is an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for 1 day in 1998. He is also currently a member of the Lok Sabha since 2009. In the 15th Lok Sabha he represented the Indian National Congress, until he resigned on 7 March 2014. Contextually, he joined the BJP in 2014 and re-entered the Lok Sabha.
Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao is an Indian politician from Telangana, associated with Bharatiya Janata Party. He served as Governor of Maharashtra from 2014 to 2019. As a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, he had served as a Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's government from 1999. He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1998 and 1999 from Karimnagar.
Yeduguri Sandinti Jagan Mohan Reddy, also known mononymously as Jagan, is an Indian politician, currently serving as the Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) representing Pulivendula Assembly constituency in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative assembly. He served as the 17th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh from 2019 to 2024, and is the current president of the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP). He is also the son of Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy.
Daggubati Purandeswari is an Indian politician from the state of Andhra Pradesh. She is the president of Bharatiya Janata Party, Andhra Pradesh. She is currently serving as a Member of Parliament of Lok Sabha representing the Rajahmundry Lok Sabha constituency.
Gangapuram Kishan Reddy is an Indian politician who serving as the 25th Minister of Coal & 45th Minister of Mines since 2024. He also served as Minister of Tourism, Culture and Development of North Eastern Region of India from 2019 to 2024. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party since 1980. He is an MP representing Secunderabad since 2019. He served as the floor leader of the BJP in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 2009 and gave it up after being elected as the state BJP president of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh. He was first state president of Telangana BJP from 2014 to 2016, appointed again as Telangana BJP president on 4 July 2023.
Galla Jayadev, also known as Jay Galla, is an industrialist in India. He is a former Indian politician. He is the managing director of Amara Raja Group and TDP Parliamentary Party Leader. Jayadev was a member of 16th and 17th Lok Sabha of India. He represented Guntur Lok Sabha constituency and been as a member of Telugu Desam Party.
The Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act of 2014, commonly known as the Telangana Act, is an Act of Indian Parliament that split the state of Andhra Pradesh into Telangana and the residuary Andhra Pradesh state, as an outcome of the Telangana movement. The Act defined the boundaries of the two states, determined how the assets and liabilities were to be divided, and laid out the status of Hyderabad as the permanent capital of new Telangana state and temporary capital of the Andhra Pradesh state.
The Jana Sena Party is an Indian regional political party in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. It was founded by Pawan Kalyan on 14 March 2014. It is currently the second largest party in Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly and is a partner in the ruling coalition. The party leader Pawan Kalyan serves as the deputy chief minister of Andhra Pradesh.
Ramcharan Bohra is an Indian politician who has been representing the Jaipur constituency of Rajasthan in the Lok Sabha since 2014. He belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party.
The Indian state of Telangana was founded in 2014. Its territory had formerly been part of Andhra Pradesh. The Telangana movement was instrumental in the creation of the new state, and Telangana Rashtra Samithi, a party which led the Telangana movement after 2001, formed the government in the Telangana Legislative Assembly under Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao. The political landscape of Telangana is dominated by the Indian National Congress and the Bharat Rashtra Samithi, with the Bharatiya Janata Party and the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen being other significant forces.
Ravela Kishore Babu is an Indian politician. He was an MLA from Prathipadu in the 2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election. He was a former member of the Telugu Desam Party. He quit TDP in 2018 and joined Jana Sena Party. In June 2019 he quit JSP in order to join Bharatiya Janata Party. In 2022 he quit BJP citing personal reasons. In January 2023 he joined BRS.
Arun Singh is an Indian politician who holds the position of National General Secretary and Head Quarter In-charge of Bharatiya Janata Party. Singh is currently serving his second term as the Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha. Over the period, Singh has discharged the responsibility as BJP's State Incharge of various states, including Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Odisha, Jharkhand and Ladakh.
The 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election were held in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh on 11 April 2019 for constituting the fifteenth legislative assembly in the state. They were held alongside the 2019 Indian general election.
Kanumuru Raghu Rama Krishna Raju is an Indian industrialist and politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the 17th Lok Sabha representing Narasapuram constituency, Andhra Pradesh. He belongs to Telugu Desam Party.
Sunil Deodhar is an Indian Politician. He was the National Secretary of the Bhartiya Janata Party. Currently, he is Co-incharge of BJP Andhra Pradesh. He is a former RSS Pracharak, and son of Marathi journalist V N Deodhar. He was campaign manager for Narendra Modi in Varanasi constituency in 2014. He founded an NGO My Home India of North-East India.
Nakka Ananda Babu is an Indian politician from the State of Andhra Pradesh. He was elected to Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly for two terms in 2009 and 2014 but lost in 2019 from Vemuru. He regained the Vemuru seat winning the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election.
